3yo daughter will be sedated?is she too young?

Question

my daughter 3yo will have her two front teeth extracted next week since she have a baby bottle mouth(coz i weaned her from bottle not too long ago), im just scared coz she will be sedated, is this okay?is it risky, what should i do

can i also stay with her during the procedure?

Answer 1

My son was also sedated for the extraction of his 4 upper front teeth at 3 years. I also worried about it but there seems to be no other way to extract teeth in a young child without sedation. It helped that the anesthesiologist did not leave my son's side until he was ok.
Also, the bottle didn't cause the problem. My daughter drank from the bottle till she was 6 years old with no problem, she had strong teeth. My second son had poor teeth from the start because I was sickly when I was conceiving him and he was also sickly in his 1st years. The pediatric dentist said that the development of the child stops when the child is ill because the body is working to fight the illness. So his teeth did not develop properly.
I also opted to have "dentures" placed which required more sedation. These were removed just last December. He is now 8 years old.
I personally think it may have affected his memory in a small way. But these are choices you have to make. If you don't have rotting teeth removed, it could lead to worse health problems.
My son is ok now and I have learned a lot from the experience.

Answer 2

A little info I think should be considered about this drug Versed ( Midazolam ) that is used for Sedation for many medical procedures..Sedation and General Anesthesia are not the same and quite a few people being given Sedation
think they are being given General Anesthesia!

There is simply no good or valid reason to ever purposely induce amnesia during a medical procedure. It is only a recent development in medical thinking that amnesia is somehow a "benefit" to the patient. On occasion some
some patients will remember a bad experience. Forgetting does not mean it did not happen!!
I feel that if people were aware of the effects of this drug they would Opt For Another Drug!
Erasing someones memory of what was done to them is wrong!!
In fact, many people who use Versed for " IV Sedation,Conscious Sedation" Twilight Sedation, during a procedure are Awake For The Entire Procedure but remember nothing, often Believing They Were "Out" the whole time.

Versed (Midazolam) is an amnestic. It is also commonly used for minor procedures like setting broken bones,colonoscopies,endoscopies, dental procedures like extractions,conscious sedation,twilight sleep, so that patients won't remember pain and discomfort.HOWEVER THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THOSE SENSATIONS WILL NOT BE EXPERIENCED!!!!


Here is a note from a Dentist Who uses Versed
I've used Versed 1000+ times during oral surgery procedures and I've never had a complaint. It's a miracle drug because it is safe and it causes you to not remember an unpleasant experience. My answer to him is isn't it better to have not experienced the pain than to have forgot it. No wonder you have had no complaints they have no memory of the procedure.....

I feel that giving a drug for amnesia is cruel I would not want it done to me!

A strange development in medical thinking that it's okay for a patient to have
pain as long as they don't remember it and think they slept thru the procedure..


Here is a link for some info

http://www.freehelpforcancer.com/manages...

Answer 3

It's better to have children sedated for any operation. Nothing worse than a screaming child suffering from fear (in the bad old days I remember vividly getting operated on to remove embedded glass in my foot, with just a local anesthetic, and it was wrenching for mom to hear me scream all the way down the ward. I was 4 years-old then. Even years later when they tried to set a fractured femur under only a local, ah, well, you can see it doesn't work for those situations). Ever since my idea of hospitals and doctors isn't pleasant. So think about the psychological effects of the pain of a shot, let alone a Novocaine shot, would do for a small kid.

Sedation for dentistry isn't the same for regular surgery. It's a form of twilight sleep. Patients are semi-awake, but well drugged and numbed (when I was under a form of it for an eye surgery, I was one h-a-p-p-y camper!). ;)

Just make sure your dentist is well qualified to use sedation, especially for young kids. If so, with the amount of anesthetic used for a simple procedure, it's not much of a worry. S/he'll come back asleep, which you'll just have more to hold and to hug. :)

Answer 4

Of course, it carries risk, everything does. My daughter was sedated at 18 months for an MRI and I worried the entire time, until she awoke. If they did not sedate her though, she probably wouldn't be still enough to perform the procedure plus it would probably be traumatizing for her to endure.They are trained in sedation, but it is quite normal to worry. Good Luck!!!!

Answer 5

I'm sure your dentist is well versed in how to care for a three year old. Bottle mouth is caused by giving a baby a bottle at night in most cases, not because they we weaned late.

Answer 6

No she is not too young. Sedation can be given very safely now and this is probably better for your daughter then for her to be awake for the procedure.

Answer 7

Do you trust that your Doctor knows what he is doing? It is always scary when a child has to be sedated. My six month old daughter was put to sleep for a surgery she had to have, and that scared me to death, but she came out of it just fine.

Answer 8

I have a 3 year old daughter too..Go ahead and do it..You don't want her to end up being scard of the dentist...Having them etracted will hurt..She will fight and then that will cause more pain and more of the not wanting to mess with dental issues...Make sure you know the side effects and be there to take complet care of her..Then agin your mom you already do that...LOL...I think it would make the process better for her and the dentist...

Answer 9

not generally if its a good dentist then the baby will do fine my oldest daughter had to hv tooth pulled when she was a baby cause she fell and the sedated her now she is 15 and she came out fine when it happen she was 2yrs old well wish you good luck

Answer 10

My son turned 4 in July and he just had his tonsils and adnoids removed while under anesthesa last Tuesday.
Everything went very well for him.
I would just make sure you talk it over with the Dr. or Dentist prior to doing so.
I hope this helps to ease your fears.